I've had this camera for over a year now, and I still love it. It's simple to use, and it produces great pictures. I still get comments occasionally about how clear the pictures are, and I'm always amazed and the clarity.

The zoom leaves something to be desired, but it's as good as it gets for the price you're paying. I would love a killer zoom, but it takes a bit more out of my pocketbook than I'm willing to part with!

It's simple to upload pictures to my computer, and I've never had any problems figuring out how to use the camera. There are plenty of fancy features I never use.

There are nicer cameras out there, but for the price you'll pay, this is a great bargain. Quality pictures and ease of use make this a good buy.

I bought this camera a little over a year ago after having used an Olympus camera of supposedly comparable picture quality at my work. I loved that camera, but what a dissapointment the D-565 has been! I often have grainy photos; the flash is shallow--harsh in the foreground and inefective on even close background items; it is a poor camera for use in taking photos of children, as it has a big red-eye problem, yet the red-eye reduction flash is terribly slow and kids don't sit still that long; the focus is slow, and even when it signals that it is in focus, I can get blurry pictures; the optical zoom control is jerky and hard to control. I have been through the manual and the online help and cannot rectify the extensive problems with this camera. I have talked with a company technician about the problems, and she was not able to provide me any more suggestions or options. My sister bought the same camera at about the same time I did, and she has the same problems. I was expecting much more from this camera. To make matters worse, I bought it at a national office supply store during its early availability, and paid a lot more for it than Amazon charges now. I bought the camera primarily to take photos of my new daughter, and I am so dissapointed!

The D-565 does take better photos outside than indoors. It is, in general, easy to use, but the poor comparative picture quality makes these factors of little consolation.

i love this camera. its my first digital camera i have bought and i love it. i wouldnt trade it for any other

I've been a professional photographer for more than 30 years (4x5, 220, 35mm, etc.) and a maxim is: NEVER use an unknown piece of equipment for an unrepeatable event! My old 35mm died on the day I had to fly out for a funeral. I bought the D-565 and 128Mb card at a supermarket on my way to the airport. READ THE MANUAL, loaded fresh batteries, shot test pix at airport - SMILED!! Bottom line: Great focus, color saturation, flash/fill, ease of use, subject satisfaction! 6 to 8 shots on alkaline batteries - ordered AC Adapter from Amazon.com - carry pocket full of AA's when prowling for shots. Love it! Pix are incredible on my Big-Screen TV!!
Gripes: Sucks AA's dry far too quickly. REALLY needs NiMH's or recommended AC adapter for downloads, etc.
Get a D-565 while you can and get out there!

This is our first family digital camera. We bought it mainly because it was on sale, and it came with the highest mega pixel in the market at the time of purchase. It produces good quality pictures I must say. However, the design of user-interface for the camera need more improvement. I agree with one the reviewer who mentioned that the cover slides open easily, and even a slight push on the cover while taking pictures would turn the camera off, which was annoying as one has to push the cover open again and wait for the lense to extent, an anti-climax for people wanting a quick shot! another weakpoint about its-user interface, is that, one can't view the pictures with the cover 'open'. One has to turn off the camera (closing the cover), and only then the viewfinder menu would work. pretty annoying when one wishes to view the picture immediately after the shot, needing to shut down the camera, view and turn it on again for the next shot! I think the viewfinder uses up too much battery, and we had to reserve energy by switching off the viewfinder while taking pictures! what do you think? having a viewfinder is one of the main feature of a digital camera!!!! I think the camera should be designed to recharge the batteries without having to remove them, and this camera uses AA batteries, which dries out very quickly when we use the viewfinder. Another bummer today.. I was transfering the photos from the camera to my PC and and the camera has to be turned on all the while (meaning the cover has to be opened with the lenses extended). without realising it, the battery ran out, now I can't retract the lenses and it is still sticking out till I get home to change the batteries! How high tech! Guess I have more dissapointment to discover! This is an expensive lesson to learn on digital cameras. For first timers, I would suggest to invest some money on digital cameras magazines and check out reviews on the Net, learn more about them, go to shops, toy with them before buying them impulsively!!! Am looking for a new camera now!

I thought I had made a good decision when purchasing this camera two years ago. It was a little slow, and the pictures weren't always great, but I could live with that. Then, two days ago all of a sudden it stopped working. One minute, my husband was taking a photo of the cats, and when he went to take another he got a black LCD display and it took a black photo. We tried again and again- all black photos. There had not been any trauma to the camera at all! One minute good, next minute dead. We tried all the tricks to fix it and I went on line to see if anyone else had experienced this black screen phenomenon. It seems that some Sony users had this problem and it was due to a defective CCD chip that was used in many brands including Olympus manufactured in 2002. Sony was fixing defective cameras, so I figured I wouldn't have any problem with Olympus fixing mine. WRONG! The operator at Olympus denied this problem and told me it may be humidity! It's October in PA- the camera was indoors- it worked then didn't work - I'm not buying the humidity theory! He then told me I could have it fixed for $109.00 by Olympus- no thanks! I allready spent way too much money on this camera in the first place. It quit working for no reason, I don't trust it now! My other option was to trade it in for a discount on 1 of 3 offered Olympus models. I looked up the discount I would receive on the models- a whopping $40.00! Thanks a lot Olympus! Now I'm stuck with all of your lousey memory cards!

I purchased this model about 18 months ago and initially it was a fair camera. I could not get the largest file photos to work well and thought that I perhaps needed a tripod or something. I was okay with the less pixel pictures for what I was using it for. Then, after a while, some of the lower quality pictures came out blurry- some looked like a soft focus and some were so blurry you could not tell what it was. Even on the lowest quality setting, about 9 of 10 pictures are completely unusable- even when taking the lowest quality pictures. I have missed many family moments including my parent's 50th wedding anniversary photos due to this problem. After contacting Olympus, they know it is an issue but (not covered since warrantee is up)will only repair it at a price that is more than I could buy another comparable camera for. Why bother with the hassle and the chance that it will continue to have problems? Buy something else!!!

I own one of these turds! Bought it based on past, (positive), experience with Olympus film cameras.
BIG F-ing mistake! Kinda like a Jag; better buy two, so you have one to use while the other is in the shop for whatever is wrong with it this time.
Worked great fresh out of the box on a January, 2003 vacation in Switzerland, except for the slowww shutter response.
Slowwwww!
It's been all down hill since then.
Sure it burns batteries; but the real pisser is when you drop newww batteries in, open the lens cover and nothing happens. You open the battery door, close the door and yes, yes, well maybe the lens will activate and the monitor illuminate.
Maybe not.
The battery door seems to be an issue on Olympus cameras of this design.
Nice: especially when your taking the pictures of those special events,. Proms , 18th birthdays. Well you know.
Another issue seems to be the cards. Both of my 256 cards and the emergency 16mb back-up have unexpectedly popped-up with the blue screen; (formt), message. The 256's on Xmas day!
This with 20-40 pix already on the 256 cards. Great way to celebrate the Xmas holiday with relatives; all shooting with their SONYS and NIKONS!
Maybe Xmas 2006...
Olympus tells me to take the cards to a drug store and ask them to recover and either print or copy to disc, the pictures already on the cards, IF they can be recovered.
Weak!!!
They tell me if I have them service the camera for $99.00, they'll warranty it for 6 months.
Listen, the total wear and tear on this camera I purchased three years ago for the Swiss trip, is about three months. I don't shlep it around everywhere with me to take pictures of crap. No extreme sports, like camera flinging. Just a warm and fuzzy camera holster and gentle touching. Not kinky, I just take care of my stuff.
SONY and NIKON both look really good about now. 7 megpixels anyone?
Olympus?
I think not!